The victor was Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana, who claimed the gold medal.
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Ledecky set a world record by winning the women’s 800-meter freestyle by an astounding 11.38 seconds.
“I do not believe that she is 100 percent”.
The U.S. goalkeeper criticized the Swedes for the way they played in beating the Americans 4-3 in a penalty shootout following a 1-1 draw – a result that means the world’s top-ranked team will miss out on an Olympic gold-medal match in women’s soccer for the first time.
Not content with merely trouncing the rest of a competitive field which included Kenya’s Vivian Cheruiyot and three-time Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba, the Ethiopian’s stunning finishing time of 29:17.45 smashed Wang Junxia’s 23-year world record by an astonishing 13 seconds.
Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana shut her critics, who accused her of doping, with her spectacular victory in the 10,000 metres at the Rio Olympics.
The 24 year-old was so far ahead of the field that she finished nearly 15 SECONDS of Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot who had to settle for silver despite setting a national record. But I’ve got no reason to say everybody who does well is cheating.
Molly Huddle of US set a new national record of 30:13.17 for sixth place, while Betsy Saina of Kenya ran a personal bet time of 30:07.78 for fifth place.
The new world-record holder for the women’s 10,000-meter run told skeptical reporters Friday that the only “drug” she takes is her Christian faith.
“My doping is my training, my doping is Jesus”, Ayana said.
Wang Junxia – one of the infamous Ma’s Army – set the women’s 10,000m world record of 29:31.78 in China back in 1993 and it’s legitimacy has always been questioned.
“It’s surreal, kind of absurd and, you know, when I touched, turned around and saw the one next to my name, I kind of smiled and laughed”, said the 35-year-old, the oldest individual champion of an Olympic swimming event. “Getting to this point is a dream come true, I never thought it would happen and I’m so in awe”.
Ayana set the only world record in the Olympic Stadium on Friday, but Carter’s winning throw in the shot put represented a new best for the United States.
“There is a very sharp answer”, Anaya said through a translator. Her compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba, the double Olympic champion, trailed and trailed, resigned to her role of mere terrestrial. “I am crystal clean”.
But all that only secured Ennis-Hill third place overall after the first two events as fellow Briton Katerina Johnson-Thompson and Belgium’s Nafi Thiam went on to clear 1.98m, a world record within heptathlon competition to claim the top two places.
At age 24, she beat the best from a previous generation.
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“I just tried to hang on to some girls and then in the last couple of kilometres, I just found myself in no man’s land”, said Marchant, 32, who is also competing in the women’s marathon on Sunday morning.
